Category Archives: Articles

King James IV (1473-1513) and the European Muurs

King James IV (1473-1513) and the European Muurs

By Jide Uwechia

King James IV of Scotland came to the throne in 1488. He was an able and visionary monarch whose administration united and maintained order in the Scottish highlands and lowlands. He encouraged manufacturing and shipbuilding, and created a navy. James IV also renewed Scotland’s alliance with France, although in 1503 he took an English wife, Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England. read more

The African Frankincense: The Beloved Perfume of the Ancestral Guides of Punt

Frankincense Tree
The African Frankincense: The Beloved Perfume of the Ancestral Guides of Punt

By Jide Uwechia

The Catholic church is one of the biggest buyers and users of incense in today’s world. Muslim Somalia, is the Roman Catholic’s Church biggest supplier. The Vatican mostly buys Somalian frankincense, the fabled perfume of the Gods of Punt, to burn for their own god Jesus the son of Mary. read more

The Hidden White Slaves of America: White on white criminality – A Retrospect

… the son of a slaveholder and an almost white slave
who was so white that “the closest obsever could not
detect in his appearance any trace of African descent.”
His father sent him off for an education and trade and
he “married an estimable young white woman, and had
a family of five or six children,” all of this without
“the slightest knowledge of the [ ] African blood in
his veins, and no one in the neighborhood knew that
he was the son of an octoroon slave woman. read more